On the windows side, Breezebrowswer reads them fine. It what I always use to browse a card and move files. It will only show a thumbnail, but that is all I need for pulling files from a card or moving them around.

I am referring to browsing a series of raw IQ160/140 or 180 file in the .IIQ format. I may have misunderstood your question. I thought you wanted another tool to preview a thumbnail of a .IIQ file from a DB.

You can't do any adjustments with BreezeBrowser, sorry if I confused the topic. I use it whenever I am wanting to browse a card or folder of Phase raw files looking for a particular series of shots. I do this since if I open the folder where all the files of that shoot are kept, Capture One will create a cache file for all the images in the folder. It takes too long for my tastes plus I will never probably use all the files in that folder. With LR I would have the option of just importing the various files I wanted to work on, but I mainly use Capture One on the Phase files (using sessions).

Phil, as i recall, on the older P45+ files, which had the .tif file extension, there was an imbedded jpg that most tools could read.

About a year ago when I purchased my 160 and started shooting the .IIQ format, I realized that Breezebrowser would not see the files as image files. I asked the author if the software could be modified to see the Phase files, and they fixed this in a upgrade. I am assuming that there is an imbedded jpg in the .IIQ format also, that Breezebrowser can see.

I was looking back on my notes, I believe that windows can also display a thumbnail for the .IIQ, example browsing in windows explorer. I need to double check that however.

That is amazing info Paul. If I can get ACDSee to see this file, I can dump my other DAMs. IDImager PhotoSupreme, PhotoMechainc IMatch, FastStone, BreezeBrowser.

Btw, I tried Breeze, and it is visually limiting. I like using Dual screen and changing the color of the interface and selecting what info I like to see below the thumbnail, even the size of the boarder. I like to have more control of my interface, but for BB enabling IIQ is great, and I see how it can be just fine and valuable for that alone. I wonder if you've looked at ACDSee? Even the Manager (rather than Pro) is great.

Side note: How do you like the 160 vs the P45+ ? (Besides file size perhaps.....It would likely depend on what you shoot).

IDImager v5 was also able to see IIQ in 1:1 if Im not mistaken. I'll test it out and see. But it had other quirks and issues. sometimes not reading large files or certain TIF. So far I find ACDSee to be top notch. I also rememebr using PhotoMechanic sometime ago and although I remeber it was kinda geared for News journalists, but solid.

Yup Mac only. Photivo is interesting, but a big learn curve. It does IIQ.

If a open source like Photivo is able to dev Raw. Is guessing that it is pretty much all up to the developing team to come up with the "processing engine"?I remember reading up on DRaw at one time which is what all raw failes "work" on..?I forget. But If others don't need any licensing or some speciallty parameters to dev raw, then I don't see why more software co are not supporting it.